A couple championships were decided during the 18th annual Annapolis Fall Regatta, held last weekend on the Chesapeake Bay and hosted by the Storm Trysail Club-Chesapeake Station.

Skipper Sandra Askew and her crew aboard Flying Jenny captured the C&C 30 East Coast Championship while Robin Team led Teamwork to ORC Chesapeake Championship.

Team has enjoyed tremendous success since taking delivery of the J/122, which made its debut in the 2009 Annapolis Fall Regatta. Teamwork celebrated its 10th anniversary by winning back where it all began.

Veteran North Sails professional Jonathan Bartlett called tactics for Team, who steered Teamwork to victory in both legs of the Friday distance race and also posted bullets in two of three of Saturday’s windward-leeward starts.

Kevin Ryman trimmed the main, Jeff Reidle trimmed the jib and Adam Team trimmed the spinnaker aboard Teamwork, which posted a tremendously low score of 6.5 points. Sitella, an XP 44 owned by Ian Hill, sailed well in placing second with 12.5 points.

“It was a great weekend and we are very happy to come away with the win,” said Team, a resident of Lexington, N.C. “As always, the crew gets all the credit. I have an outstanding team that once again did a terrific job of sailing the boat.”

Principal Race Officer Dick Neville added a unique element to the distance race, which was divided into two parts and featured a scoring gate at the midway mark. Teamwork made the most of that opportunity by picking up first place points at the scoring gate then adding bonus points by securing overall victory as well.

“We loved the distance race because we got a chance to use sails we don’t to use in a typical windward-leeward race,” Team said. “For a point-to-point race, there was a whole lot of action. A lot of sail changes, a lot of strategical decisions to be made. We really enjoyed it.”

Askew has considerable experience racing the C&C 30 and it showed through during the Annapolis Fall Regatta. Flying Jenny secured the first place points for the first leg of the distance race then won two of the three buoy races in totaling 10 points, 3 ½ better than runner-up My Sharona (George Gamble, Pensacola, Florida).

“It was a great regatta and we had a lot of fun. Dick Neville and his team with the Storm Trysail Club always run a fantastic event,” Askew said. “The weather and wind conditions could not have been better. It was fall sailing off Annapolis at its finest, that’s for sure.”

“We had close racing with the five boats that were here,” Askew said. “Everything seemed to come together at the right time for our team. I thought our boat-handling was very strong and the tactical calls by Jason were spot-on. It’s just a good crew that did a lot of things right in this regatta.”

Meanwhile, Neville is uncertain about the future of the Annapolis Fall Regatta, which was founded in 2001. This event has evolved over the years and featured racing under the IMS, IRC and now ORC rating systems.

“Unfortunately, over the last 10 years it’s been a continuous decline. Participation has been dwindling ever since we had 46 boats here for the IRC Championship in 2008,” Neville said. “If you don’t have customers, you don’t have an event. We’ll see if anything can be done to turn things around, but it’s too much work for just 13 boats.”

Skipper Ray Wulff added one professional to the crew for last weekend’s West Marine J/70 Fall Brawl off Annapolis and came away victorious.

North Sails-Chesapeake pro Zeke Horowitz called tactics for Wulff, who steered Joint Custody to a low score of nine points. Jake Doyle trimmed the headsails while Fletcher Sims worked the bow as the Annapolis Yacht Club entry got the gun in Race 4 and placed second in the other four starts.

Competition was held Saturday on the Chesapeake Bay with Eastport Yacht Club race committee completing five races in 10-15 knot westerly winds.

“It is always a pleasure to sail with a team that you have the utmost confidence in their ability,” Wulff sid. “The westerly was amazingly shifty. Focusing on going fast and having Zeke put us in the right places led to our consistency. I can’t say enough how strong the team was.”

Horowitz and Doyle also competed at the J/70 Worlds, crewing for Scott and Alex Furnary aboard ninth place finisher Any Colour.

“We have been working with Zeke Horowitz of North Sails One Design for a while and it was awesome to finally sail together,” said Wulff, who won the Fall Brawl for the first time in six tries.

Wulff gave credit to organizers with host Eastport Yacht Club for recognizing that gale force winds on Sunday would likely prevent racing and therefore completing five starts on Saturday.

With the win, the Joint Custody team, which usually includes Ray’s wife Jenn, qualifies for the 2019 J/70 World Championship.

Wild Child, skippered by Stevensville resident Henry Filter, was a distant second with 20 points. The Eastport Yacht Club entry closed the regatta with a trio of third place finishes to secure the runner-up position over Bazinga, owned by Daniel Goldberg of Mamaroneck, N.Y.